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Taap.it, the geo-aware classified mobile app that launched at TechCruch Disrupt in late May, has experienced impressive growth in the last two months. They’ve seen $2.4 million in transactions cleared through their online marketplace With the Taap.it iPhone (and Android) … Continue reading →

I couldn’t resist. This morning I was in New York City, near Union Square Park, which is known for its excellent farmer’s market. And temporarily, the Best Buy on the south end of the park is one of the few places you … Continue reading →

If Virtual Office Solo had been worked out by a few moonlighting developers, and the founder lined up some angel investors and delivered a cool presentation at say New York Tech Meetup, it would be getting a lot more attention … Continue reading →

Casa Mila, Barcelona/Wikimedia Australian telco rejects femtocell … Intel CEO talks wireless electric lamp … Cisco’s WiFi fail at MWC … Vodafone to avoid closed vertically-integrated systems … Android booth has awesome slide … Euro operators are over-regulated …  HTC Desire S runs … Continue reading →

When future paleontologists examine the fossilized remains of today’s corporate printers, they’ll re-use dinosaur die-off theory to explain the mystery of these inkjet beasts: “A series of environmental changes and perhaps a disruptive technology or two set them on the … Continue reading →

I have completed a .1 release of my first Android app, hammered together with Google’s App Inventor toolkit. It’s a simple but trailblazing RSS displayer that pulls in bill status from the New York State Senate’s own open government platform, … Continue reading →

OnSIP, the cloud-based PBX startup, has reviewed the native SIP capabilities of Gingerbread (Android 2.3). Within the fine print of Google’s Gingerbread announcement last month was a reference to Internet calling using an onboard SIP stack. So the crew at … Continue reading →

I finally found one. With all my relevant RSS feeds already nicely organized in my Google Reader, I naively thought it would be easy enough to view my feeds with an Android app. Wrong. For those who have tuned in … Continue reading →

Wikipedia I like my newest gadgedroid, the Archos 7o Internet Tablet. It is usable in a way that the lower cost tablets I purchased earlier, and returned, were not. With sipdroid now installed and configured to work with my onSIP … Continue reading →

I made good on the first of my New Year’s resolutions by overcoming my Android Thriftiness Syndrome and splurging for the Archos 7o Internet Tablet. As soon as I powered it on, it was clear my investment (about $270) had … Continue reading →